Asheville Tear Gas

Update tuesday 8 00 a m.

Asheville tear gas. Asheville police fired tear gas just before 10 p m. Hundreds packed the square and marched down an interstate during a protest sunday night in asheville. Wyff news 4 photojournalist codie sloan reports tear gas was used and police fired rubber. Council members meanwhile took steps at a june 23 meeting to ban tear gas and potentially other less lethal weapons used by the asheville police department during more than a week of protests.

A crowd of hundreds filled pack square in downtown asheville monday for a second straight night of protest that ended in tear gas and rubber bullets fired. Asheville city council members took steps tuesday night to ban the use of tear gas. Tuesday june 2nd 2020. Earlier in the day the mayor of asheville declared a state of emergency and issued a.

Tear gas was used again and arrests were made in the area. During the first night apd made 22 arrests all tied to the protests. Subscribe now 1 for 3 months. It s quite clear that protests in asheville are not going away and the fact that we used tear gas so indiscriminately is wrong in my view haynes said during.

During the june 23 meeting of asheville city council council member brian haynes called on his fellow members to vote on whether to issue a temporary ban on the use of tear gas for all circumstances including during protests. Tuesday night after crowds ignored the 8 p m. Asheville police used tear gas to break up what had been a peaceful protest in pack square late monday evening. Some said they thought it was used inappropriately by asheville police during recent protests.

Demonstrators chanted at a line of north. Tear gas was also used by police sunday during an hours long protest that traversed from pack square to the bowen bridge on i 240 and back.